It is crazy how intermittent my blog writing is becoming. I stopped blogging sometime last year, for wanting a fresh start sometime later. Then I started again around the NFL playoffs this year, but have again slowed down.
I guess it totally depends on how "busy" I am - in the sense how occupied with something else I am.
So, updates.. nothing much to write about. Gave a talk (look for "Prog701 - QWERTY keypad support" on that page - click on "Video") in relation to what I work on. It is strange to hear and see yourself talking on video - I sound nothing like what I think I sound - of course I hardly, if ever, speak to a crowd.
Manchester United won the Champs league! I was just starting out to be a fan when they did it in 99, and to get to see them lift it again is tremendous.
Lakers got slaughtered at the hands of the Celtics. No shocker there I think, the Celts were tremendous. It would take a way more mature team to beat them. Only way Lakers would have won was if the Celts made basic mistakes. Of course, didn't happen.
I visited Denmark - and it is only a 4 hour drive from San Diego :-). Well, I visited a Danish town in the US anyway. It is gorgeous, and incredible how authentic they've made it. The Danish pastries were.. well, hard to describe. Unlike the sugar-coma versions that we normally get in the US, these were just.. well tasted to be believed.
Anyway, hope this is not my last post for the next 3 months - the way I've been going.
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Friday, April 11, 2008
Term-inal thinking
A general observation --
Even with so much history to guide us, and supposedly so many free knowledge tools at our disposal, so many decisions are made based on the short term benefit rather the long term potential.
For example, a football team hires a coach while evidently thinking of the long term. But give 4-5 bad results in a row, and the coach is no more. So, a coach's long term future is penalized because of short term failures.
Even when we buy lots of stuff on credit, we are looking at short term benefit (enjoying using whatever we buy) rather than long term potential (too much debt).
Stock market - if a company announces that it missed its earnings forecast by 0.05%, everybody sells the stock, and that too at a loss! Forget the long term potential of the company.
A company is making losses, so it will fire off enough employees so that the balance sheet again shows a profit. Of course, making a generalization here, but the point is still valid.
Are we getting too used to the I-want-it-now fast food philosophy that we apply to everything? What about some good old grinding out the good results, or sticking around in tough times and riding them out?
After all, it is the long term decisions that decide how we fare in the, well, long term.
Even with so much history to guide us, and supposedly so many free knowledge tools at our disposal, so many decisions are made based on the short term benefit rather the long term potential.
For example, a football team hires a coach while evidently thinking of the long term. But give 4-5 bad results in a row, and the coach is no more. So, a coach's long term future is penalized because of short term failures.
Even when we buy lots of stuff on credit, we are looking at short term benefit (enjoying using whatever we buy) rather than long term potential (too much debt).
Stock market - if a company announces that it missed its earnings forecast by 0.05%, everybody sells the stock, and that too at a loss! Forget the long term potential of the company.
A company is making losses, so it will fire off enough employees so that the balance sheet again shows a profit. Of course, making a generalization here, but the point is still valid.
Are we getting too used to the I-want-it-now fast food philosophy that we apply to everything? What about some good old grinding out the good results, or sticking around in tough times and riding them out?
After all, it is the long term decisions that decide how we fare in the, well, long term.
Monday, January 14, 2008
Bolts hit colts
What a game. As a fan, this is pretty much as exciting as it gets. A fan by definition is a die-hard, who will believe anything is possible. But trailing 4th quarter, no Tomlinson, Rivers, Gates, Neal.. Billy Volek at QB and Sproles in the backfield, and Nanee... and you are only playing the Indianapolis Colts away from home in a divisional playoff. You get 7 points wiped off on a (terribly) wrong refreeing call. I admit I did not believe for a moment. But I was wrong. That was quite a performance, extremely gutsy.
Yes everybody wanted an Indy vs Pats showdown. One writer (if you can call him that) went as far as saying that the Chargers are a bunch of goofs because they messed up everyone's dream match by winning!
I think everyone was so caught up with the fact that this was going to be an Indy vs Pats dream AFCCG, they are just finding it hard to accept that Indy got beat at home against a team that they were a 10 point favorite to win. But this is the NFL, and I know what SD is made up of. They should have gone to the Superbowl last year - one fumble changed everything. But it is the same team that went 14-2 last year and the Pats needed a shade of luck to beat! You cannot underestimate a team like that.
I don't know what is going to happen on Sunday... how banged up we are. One thing I do know is that this is not going to be an easy game for the Pats. I know they will be ready, and I know SD will be ready, irrespective of available personnel. Forget about the regular season blowout, this is the AFC championship game. This is going to be an exciting game.
Yes everybody wanted an Indy vs Pats showdown. One writer (if you can call him that) went as far as saying that the Chargers are a bunch of goofs because they messed up everyone's dream match by winning!
I think everyone was so caught up with the fact that this was going to be an Indy vs Pats dream AFCCG, they are just finding it hard to accept that Indy got beat at home against a team that they were a 10 point favorite to win. But this is the NFL, and I know what SD is made up of. They should have gone to the Superbowl last year - one fumble changed everything. But it is the same team that went 14-2 last year and the Pats needed a shade of luck to beat! You cannot underestimate a team like that.
I don't know what is going to happen on Sunday... how banged up we are. One thing I do know is that this is not going to be an easy game for the Pats. I know they will be ready, and I know SD will be ready, irrespective of available personnel. Forget about the regular season blowout, this is the AFC championship game. This is going to be an exciting game.
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